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CHRISTCHURCH
Christchurch's largest circulating community newspaper
Thursday, August 22, 2013
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Duck cull
urged for
Avon river
It's a tradeoff between those
people who like ducks, and
those people who want a
clean river.
Canterbury medical officer of health
Alistair Humphrey
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ACHRISTCHURCH health
expert says culling the huge
population of non-native
ducks could help clean up the city's
dirty rivers.
Canterbury medical officer of
health Alistair Humphrey said the
rivers are not clean and it is time
for the community to decide on a
solution.
Whitebaiting has again been
tarnished with pollution, with
warnings in place against collecting
whitebait from the Avon River, the
Heathcote River, and the Avon-
Heathcote Estuary.
Dr Humphrey said it was not
only broken sewer pipes causing the
problems.
Dog and duck faeces have contri-
buted to high levels of pollution in
Christchurch rivers.
The ducks calling the waterways
home are not native and their
pollution levels are high.
Dr Humphrey said the non-
native duck population may need to
be culled in order to clean up the
rivers and make way for native
species.
This is a sensitive topic, because
some Cantabrians like the ducks.
It's a tradeoff between those people
who like ducks, and those people
who want a clean river.
The river is not clean, and it
won't be until we as a community
do something about it,'' he said.
The time is here, now, for
Christchurch to decide if we're
going to make a difference.
Are we going to do something
about the standard of our rec-
reational waters, or are we going
to say it's too hard?''
The time is ripe for
discussion about the future of
the rivers, because of the
work being done to plant the
riverbanks and create
reserves in parts of the
city.
While broken sewer
pipes could be affecting
rivers for a few years
yet, Dr Humphrey said
what happened after
they are repaired
needed to be planned
for now, as it would not
be a quick fix.
While Christchurch has
bylaws in place governing
how dog owners clean up after
their pets in public spaces, it was
obviously not effective, because dog
faeces were contaminating the
rivers.
We need to look at how that
bylaw is enforced,'' he said.
A national programme was
already in place which encouraged
the promotion of native species
around waterways -- whether it was
flora or fauna.
These ducks are not native. We
need to look at encouraging native
species of birds to these areas,'' he
said.
In order to clean up the
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